> On 22 January 2014 01:49, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's related to copyright and permissions of the material, but
>> what about that first sentence:
>>
>> *You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or
>> similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content*
>>
>>
> Jan pointed out that youtube2mediawiki.py doesn't actually "download" the
> video, so I think we're fine with the provisions of licensor's permission
> in the sentence below.
>
Well not exactly -- just because the downloading is modularized into a
Python script doesn't mean it's not downloading. :) The exact code actually
does download:
#download video and save to file.
u = self.opener.open(url)
f = open(filename, 'w')
data = True
while data:
data = u.read(4096)
f.write(data)
f.close()
u.close()
return True
> Commons is ultra-conservative with copyright, but doesn't really care
> about any other terms and conditions imposed by anyone else. So I think
> it's fine to transfer the videos from YouTube to Commons - no copyright is
> violated and the ambiguity in the YouTube TOS works in our favour.
>
Yes, I do believe there's not much to worry about in this particular
situation. Just be aware that we're running afoul of the TOS, even if
Google is lax on enforcement. A violation of TOS could be used to go after
users in other less clear-cut cases.
-Andrew
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